With the recent (not so shocking) guilty verdict in the Bill Cosby rape case, I finally made time this week to read Louise O'Neill's Asking For It, a book that has been on my TBR since in came out a couple of years ago.
This book and others like it are eye-opening, and I can't help but think about how many precarious situations I put myself in, especially when I was a teen. It was only by sheer luck--some would say by the grace of God--that I was spared the experiences of girls like Emma O'Donovan in Asking For It or Melinda in Speak. Would I have had the courage to speak out, or to even tell my parents what had happened? Read more...Read more »
This book and others like it are eye-opening, and I can't help but think about how many precarious situations I put myself in, especially when I was a teen. It was only by sheer luck--some would say by the grace of God--that I was spared the experiences of girls like Emma O'Donovan in Asking For It or Melinda in Speak. Would I have had the courage to speak out, or to even tell my parents what had happened? Read more...Read more »